Word: auteurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FLASHBULBS WERE POPPING two weeks ago when Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan showed up at a Hollywood theater for the premiere of Broken Arrow, the new John Travolta film. Make that the new John Woo film, for Hong Kong's No. 1 action auteur directed this $60 million thriller. Chan, whose gonzo melodrama Rumble in the Bronx hits 1,500 screens this week, was at the premiere to wish his home-town colleague well and to personify the friendly invasion of Hollywood by Hong Kong talent. Only one problem: by the time Jackie got inside, all the seats were...
After months of strenuously denying any romantic attachment, gore-auteur QUENTIN TARANTINO and Mighty Aphrodite star MIRA SORVINO have given in. Love has blossomed just in time for Valentine's Day-and the announcement of the Academy Awards, for one of which Sorvino is highly likely to be nominated and Tarantino equally likely not to be. The couple, currently in Paris for her publicity tour, share an interest in Chinese films, but for different reasons: he likes the violence, she studied East Asian languages and civilization at Harvard...
...considers Milk and Kisses a psychic return to the soothing days of her childhood, as hinted at by its uncharacteristically sentimental title. Judging from Fraser's statements and the material on these two EP's, the Cocteaus seem to have succumbed to the disease that terrifies every Prozac-wary auteur -- a thirst for happiness...
RISING STAR OF THE YEAR: Alicia Silverstone. Runner-up: Edward Burns, ethnic auteur of The Brothers McMullen, made for $25,000 Comeback of the year: Jay Leno, with the help of dancing Itos and a CBS slump. Runner-up: Philippine Congresswoman Imelda Marcos...
Superlatives are a little ridiculous applied to any art form, let alone one that boasts Sherwood Schwartz, the brain behind both Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, as an auteur. But here goes anyway. The Larry Sanders Show, with its laugh-trackless verisimilitude, is the best comedy on TV, probably the closest a sitcom will ever come to perfect pitch (yes, it's on HBO--so much for ground rules). The best drama: Party of Five, a thirtysomething for teenagers and young adults--with all the pluses (honest, abnormally well-crafted writing) and minuses (too much acoustic guitar...